Ellen Tauscher: “I guess I am a little confused about the subcommittee chairman's assertion that the military discriminates right now…”

“I guess I am a little confused about the subcommittee chairman's assertion that the military discriminates right now against people that are too tall and too other things when in fact I think what we would actually call those would be minimum standards for qualification to qualify to be a good soldier, airmen, Marine. The question I have is: Is there such a thing as being too female, because this is a specific issue for American fighting men and women, and this is about American women who have the right to have the right to choose as American citizens, but because they are on military duty overseas our colleagues are suggesting that they forfeit that right. I think that is discriminatory, I think that is inappropriate, and I urge my colleagues to support the Sanchez amendment.”